Ronni Kahn the Founder of Oz Harvest in Australia, rang me to give me some feed back as to where some of our Charity Cupcake Drive cupcakes ended up. Ronni said she took 400 out to Macquarie Fields an outer suburb of Sydney, which has an extremely high unemployment and poverty rate. Oz Harvest distributed them to the local children as part of a little Christmas party they organized. She said that the children were just overwhelmed and loved them, they were a serious treat and guarded protectively, Ronni wanted to say a special thank you to everyone who participated and to let you know how apprecioated the cupcake were!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

A big team came this morning from Oz Harvest to collect our cupcakes, they will be distributing them over the next few days to the following areas: Parramatta, Wollongong and Waterloo where they will be distributed amongst many charities, the Waterloo drop off is to be distributed amongst over 12 charities alone - OZ Harvest were extremely grateful and asked that I pass on a thank you to all of the volunteers!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I think that we were definately saving the best for last, the Afternoon shift whizzed through over 1000 cupcakes in record time with spectacular results.

A big thank you to volunteers: Amy Aitkenhead, Sally Beesley, Karli Bryden, Carol Bryden, Sonja Cogle, Natalie Fourie, Tiffany Harris, Jenny Jurkovic, Kimberley Littleford, Annie Lo, Catherine McLachlan, Lyn Meade, Kylie Meade, Fiona Paterson, Rebecca Pedemont, Sue Pedemont, Linda Perrins, Jomana Racheha, Amanda Rattray, Katherine Singson, Rachel Vassallo, Donna Ward, Kyranie Wegg, Gengis Yaglipinar, Yusra Charouk and Melanie Starr *I would also like to say a big thank you to the wonderful staff that have supported me today and given up time with their families, unpaid to make the Drive a success. Particularly I would like to thank Anna Maria & Joseph Roche and Jessica Pedemont, who have worked tirelessly through 3500 cupcakes all day, thank you guys so much for not only supporting my hair brained ideas, but for your compassion and excellence at what you do!

A huge thank you to our first shift of the cupcake drive for producing just over 1000 cupcakes, a significant contribution to the end tally, and a lovely group of people, I hope to see a lot of them again at next years charity cupcake drive!!

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My name is Paris Cutler and along with my husband Billy we are lucky enough to be the Owners of Planet Cake. In the years that I have owned Planet Cake I have become fairly confident that we have one of the most talented cake decorating teams on the planet. In the last 3 years we have designed and created many incredible cakes including cakes for Lleyton Hewitt, Nicole Kidman and Celine Dion. I developed the idea of a charity cupcake drive in 2006; I felt a desperate need as a person and as a business, to get some balance back. It is all very well to be making beautiful cakes and working with some of Australia’s most elite, however it is worthless if we forget how privileged we are and ignore those who are less fortunate, the Charity Cupcake Drive is my most treasured event in the Planet Cake calendar, please join me as this blog follows the journey of the 2008 cupcake drive.